AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESSES AGAINST THE REPATRIATION & GILTI TAXES

Hi Fellow Americans:

In addition to sending the three template emails below, I ask that you PHONE one person:

HOUSE COMMITTEE OF OVERSIGHT. CALL BETWEEN 9AM-5PM EAST COAST TIME

1. 1-202-225-5051. Press 2. Then ask to speak to Yvette Vadu-Nimako. If she is not available leave her a voice message telling her that Treasury's abuse of process and violation of three Federal laws is killing your small business. Ask her to investigate Treasury for these abuses.

2. If you are from NY, call NY Congresswoman Maloney who will be the new Chairperson of the subcommittee of government oversight. Call 1-202-225-7944. Ask to speak to Michael Iger or Christina Parisi. Tell him/her (or leave message) that you vote in NY then convey the message in #1 above.

Thx Monte

Copy and paste the email addresses into an email. Sent an email once every two weeks! YES, every two weeks!

Subject: U.S. Treasury, Secretary Mnuchin personally, and the OIRA/OMB are grossly abusing their power in violation of three federal laws, and devastating hundreds of thousands of American small businesses.

Dear Congressman Cummings and Congresswomen Maloney and the House Oversight committee

I am an American small business owner. The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act created two new international taxes - the Transition and GILTI taxes. These two taxes were intended for the Googles and Apples of the world, but due to the rapid manner in which the TCJA was adopted, these taxes caught the tiniest one-person businesses in the same net. As a result, these two taxes are devastating hundreds of thousands of small business owners. We small business owners advised Treasury of the problem in early March 2018. Treasury granted us relief twice, in the form of extensions to file & pay these taxes. Secretary Mnuchin personallyapproved the second relief in June 2018.

But then, in August 2018, Treasury issued proposed regulations for these two taxes, in both cases, circumventing the requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) by Secretary Mnuchin personally certifying in bad faith that the two regulations have no impact on small businesses. See email to Secretary Mnuchin and officers of Treasury/IRS/OMB/OIRA at https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Cz9Cq9QwBs_KqcGfm1fmvs19hFbVYW9/view?usp=sharing

We are small business owners. We cannot afford to hire high-paid lobbyists to protect us. We are little people who are completely vulnerable to the abusive conduct of Treasury, the OMB and OIRA. We have no resource but to hope that the House Oversight committee looks into this and makes sure that these agencies follow the RFA & PRA, and stop their unreasonable conduct as set forth in APA 5 USC 706 relating to conduct which is (i) arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law; (ii) without observance of procedure required by law; and (iii) unsupported by substantial evidence.

Our grassroots movement has generated a significant written record on the above matter and would be more than willing to share it with the committee upon request.

Subject: Hundreds of thousands of small business owners abroad and in the U.S. devastated by the Transition and GILTI taxes propose a simple free solution for the TCJA technical fix

Dear Senator Schumer & Rep., Pelosi

I am an American small business owner. In 2017, the Republicans passed the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which created two new international taxes - the Transition and GILTI taxes. These two taxes were intended for the Googles and Apples of the world, but due to the rapid manner in which the TCJA was adopted, these taxes caught the tiniest one-person businesses in the same net. As a result, these two taxes are devastating hundreds of thousands of small business owners. Our grassroots movement tried to get relief from the Republicans in congress and the Republican Treasury. They failed us.

We know that the Democrats did not create these problems, but we know that a technical fix can be passed. We offer a very simple cost free solution to our problem that could be passed as part of the technical fix.

The solution is:

(i) That individual US shareholders get the same deferral enjoyed by individual shareholders who hold their interests in CFCs via an S corp. (See the terms of the deferral in IRC 965(i). We do not seek a de-minimis exemption, only the IRC 965(i) deferral).

(ii) That individual US shareholders who make the IRC 962 election get the same IRC 260 GILTI deductions that Google and Apple enjoy.

These two new taxes are devastating to us. But to get relief that you can easily sign off on, and which costs nothing, we are asking for the bare minimum that will allow our businesses to survive.

We cannot afford lobbyists. We have nothing but our voice. We hope that you will hear it.

Respectfully,

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